{Page} The Great Newspaper War Up until about 100 years ago, newspapers in the Unite

{Page} The Great Newspaper War

Up until about 100 years ago, newspapers in the United States appealed only to the most serious readers. They used no illustrations and the articles were ______ (51) politics or business.

Two men______(52) that —Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and William Randolph Hearst of the New York Morning Journal. Pulitzer______ (53) the New York World in 1883. He changed it from a traditional newspaper into a very______(54) one overnight (一夜之间). He______ (55) lots of illustrations and cartoons. And he told his reporters to write articles on______(56) crime or scandal they could find. And they did. One of them even pretended she was crazy and then she was______ (57) to a mental hospital. She then wrote a series of articles about the poor______ (58)of patients in those hospitals.

In 1895, Hearst______ (59) to New York from California. He wanted the New

York Morning Journal to be more sensational (轰动的) and more exciting ______ (60) the New York World. He also wanted it to be cheaper, so he______ (61) the price by a penny. Hearst attracted attention because his headlines were bigger than______(62). He often said, "Big print makes big news."

Pulitzer and Hearst did anything they______(63) to sell newspapers. For example, Hearst sent Frederic Remington, the famous illustrator (插图画家), to

______(64) pictures of the Spanish-American War. When he got there, he told Hearst that no fighting was______ (65). Hearst answered, "You furnish (提供) the pictures, I'll furnish the war."

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